Adding to the list of THINGS GUYS SHOULDN'T DO (which SHOULD go without saying, but here we are...):
DON'T pull your genitals out of your pants at work.
DON'T meet women for meetings naked or wearing only a robe.
and
DON'T ask female coworkers to act as gestational hosts.

Interior staff: That whole public funding for private jets scandal was really bad. Gotta be sure we don't do that again.
Zinke: Sure sure. No more private JETS, I hear you. https://twitter.com/politico/status/938918578442657793

I regret to inform you that the universe has offered a stark case in point

Erik Prince has been in the news a lot lately. In his book, he explains the kind of man he is: the kind who impregnates his children's nanny while his wife is dying of cancer. https://books.google.com/books?id=9TgtAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Random dude on the bus grabbed my shoulder and was like oh I talked to you once before Halloween I remember you rainbow girl (I have my rainbow hat on and rainbow gloves) and I just whipped around and yanked his hand off and told him to leave me the fuck alone. Then the bus driver asked me if I was alright, and the dude got off at the next stop. I am proud of myself for standing up for myself.

But it just frustrates me that it happened. Like yeah it's a small thing but wtf

OH. patreon has updated their blog post to imply that they plan to charge patrons on the monthly anniversary of /each pledge/, rather than all at once on the first https://blog.patreon.com/updating-patreons-fee-structure/
this seems like something worth mentioning more explicitly??

@GodEmperorDune Yeah but it's not as viscerally terrifying as Planned Parenthood abducting teenage girls in the middle of the night to put their uterusesuterii uteropodes in blenders to make youth smoothies for Hillary Clinton.

Always cool to be reminded that there are people in Congress who would not pass a standard background check to work at Best Buy. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/08/scott-desjarlais-reelection-110028

Tonight, Trump is hosting the White House Hanukkah party. Hanukkah is next week. In an early holiday miracle, this Trump tweet lasted for six years and came back to burn him. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/145253073588203520

@ToxicFrog sorry, should have clarified. I meant actual warzones, as in 2 armies against one another. Now that the Middle East conflict in Iraq and Syria is getting to a close, I can't really think of a an active warzone like that.

> the UK will maintain full alignment with those rules of the Internal Market and the Customs Union which, now or in the future, support North-South cooperation, the all island economy and the protection of the 1998 Agreement.

so, all of them?

I wonder if it's possible to feel as much regret as Theresa May does over calling that election

@cazc_941 to quote wikipedia: "Ames committed suicide following successive tweets in which she defended her refusal to perform in a pornographic movie with a man who had previously worked in gay porn and sparking an "online firestorm". Friends said she suffered from depression."

I mean she has no obligation to take part in a movie, but still, that refusal reason is shitty.

@cazc_941 people are free to decline sex for any reason or no reason at all, even in porn. That said, that doesn't mean no-one else is allowed to draw inferences about that person's character or beliefs from their stated reasons.

LAST thing the Make America Great Again Agenda needs is a Liberal Democrat in Senate where we have so little margin for victory already. The Pelosi/Schumer Puppet Jones would vote against us 100% of the time. He’s bad on Crime, Life, Border, Vets, Guns & Military. VOTE ROY MOORE!

@Ave I read a news article on this and apparently homosexual porn actors are required to wear condoms for their work and as a result are less strenuously tested for sexually-transmitted diseases in comparison to heterosexual porn actors.

@ericgeller @chrisgeidner He just admitted he runs an agency defined as independent in *US law.* (see attached)
I know people will scoff, but a president admitting that s/he will violate the law and exercise power unlawfully is paradigmatically impeachable,

@PrivatePansy AIUI impeachment requires a simple majority in the house and a 2/3rds majority of the senate, so adding one more thing to the long list of impeachable/illegal things he's already done means nothing until the R hold on both houses is broken, because they will never, ever vote to impeach

@ToxicFrog I don't think it's impeachable either (in so much as the fact that like you mentioned, impeachment is a political process not a judicial one), but it's so weird the PotUS is just casually breaking the law

@PrivatePansy it doesn't strike me as weird at all once the realization was widespread that nothing matters and there are no consequences; at that point the goal changes to "loot the country as rapidly and blatantly as possible, and if you can't secure power, get out before you lose it"

RFA notes KCNA accidentally aired footage of a NK soldier being burned to death by Hwasong-15's exhaust flames during Nov 30th launch. The footage was edited out for subsequent broadcasts but NK residents in Yangkang province insist they saw him in flames.
http://www.rfa.org/korean/in_focus/nk_nuclear_talks/missileflame-12062017081816.html

From Patreon: "We'd rather have our GMV be made up of fewer, but truly life-changed creators rather than a lot of creators making a few dollars." Well that tells me all I need to know about how much they actually care abt creators. https://brianbalfour.com/essays/patreon-onboarding-growth

- you get dinged for processing fees on each one, so if you have 10 $1 donations that's $0.29 + $3.50 rather than $0.29 + $0.35

- processing fees are now added to the original pledge, so if you pledged $1 you are now getting charged $1.38, of which the creator gets $0.95, patreon gets $0.05, and paypal gets $0.38

They're spinning this as "creators get more money and more consistent money", which is true only if the increased fees don't cause supporters to either reduce their pledges or leave entirely, which a lot are already.

So creators are getting more per supporter but less overall, supporters are paying more and getting billed more conveniently, and all the extra money is going to paypal.

There's a lot of speculation that these changes were a result of paypal supplying most of the VC money Patreon got in their last funding round and now wanting a return on investment.

My overall patreon costs will probably go up significantly because of this, but I still probably won't change any pledges. There are a bunch of creators that I have $1 or $2 pledged to to access patron-only posts, and another ~$0.35 each doesn't really change the reasoning there

@murgatroid99 it doesn't change the reasoning for you, but it does for a lot of people; creators are shedding patrons because some people really can only spare $1/mo, or because having the transactions sharded means they get reamed by their bank or credit card company with monthly transaction limits.

@KevinvanderVelden that's part of the change -- rather than batching all of your pledges into one transaction each month, it's one transaction per pledge on the same day of the month you originally pledged.

Which serves no purpose except to let them soak people for more processing fees while also making it super inconvenient

Yeah, that would probably work better -- one payment gets you all prior stuff + everything up to the next payment, determined at the time you are charged, not at the time you sign up; if you want the stuff now have a "charge me retroactively for this month" tickbox on signup.

> A Japanese firm is planning to use a drone to force employees out of their offices by playing music at them if they stay to work evening overtime. > > Experts were unimpressed, one branding it a "silly" idea.